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Research Library Impact Pilots
Research Library Impact Pilots can be a research project (a formal, original research study, facilitated by ARL and its members) or a practice brief (a short document designed to support...
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Humanities for All Showcases Publicly Engaged Humanities Work in US Higher Education
The National Humanities Alliance has launched a new website, Humanities for All, that highlights publicly engaged humanities projects at higher education institutions across the United States. The Humanities for All site...
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NEH for All Highlights Impact of Humanities Projects across United States
In conjunction with Humanities Advocacy Day 2018, the National Humanities Alliance has refreshed the NEH for All website demonstrating the impact of the National Endowment for Humanities (NEH) across the...
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Webinar—Collection Assessment (SPEC Kit 352)
SPEC Kit 352, Collection Assessment, explores how collection assessment methods, measures, and practices are currently employed and how the results are used at ARL member libraries.The Collection Assessment webinar reviewed...
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SPEC Kit 352: Collection Assessment (September 2016)
This SPEC Kit explores which collection assessment methods, measures, and practices ARL member libraries currently employ. This study gathered information on which library staff collect and analyze data, for what...
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SPEC Kit 351: Affordable Course Content and Open Educational Resources (July 2016)
This SPEC Kit explores the degree to which ARL member institutions advocate, support, and develop affordable course content and open educational resources (ACC/OER). This study gathered information on ACC/OER initiatives...
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SPEC Kit 347: Community-based Collections (July 2015)
This SPEC Kit explores collections that have been amassed not by one individual but by a collective, which may take the form of a museum, ethnic or cultural organization, or...
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SPEC Kit 345: Shared Print Programs (December 2014)
This SPEC Kit explores the extent of ARL member libraries’ participation in concerted efforts among groups of libraries to collaboratively collect or retain print collections and provide access to them....
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SPEC Kit 341: Digital Collections Assessment and Outreach (August 2014)
This SPEC Kit investigates what methods ARL member libraries use to maintain the relevancy of their locally curated digital library collections, and to continue to sustain, grow, capture return on...
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Strategies to Sustain Digitized Special Collections: Ithaka S+R/ARL Web Seminar Video and Q&A Online
Museums and libraries are taking advantage of advances in technology to move their rare and unique collections online. What most institutions learn quickly is that digitization is the easy part....